Installing the classical Greek keyboard (Windows XP)

Click Regional & Language
Options (depending on your desktop settings, you may need to select
Date, Time, Language and Regional Options in the Pick a category
window, then select Regional & Language Options)

Select Languages
tab in the dialog box

Click the Details
button

Text Services and Input
Languages dialog box should now be open - in the Installed Services
area click the Add button

Add Input Language
dialog box should now be open - select Greek in the Input
language drop-down slot

In the Keyboard layout/IME
drop-down slot, select Greek Polytonic

Click the OK button
for the Add Input Language dialog box

In the Text Services
and Input Languages dialog box, click the Language Bar button
to open the Language Bar Settings dialog box

Place a check mark in the
check box next to Show Language bar on the desktop

Close all dialog boxes
by clicking their OK buttons. Your computer should now have the
Greek Keyboard installed in addition to the English Keyboard.

Using the classical Greek keyboard (Windows XP)

The active keyboard is indicated on the Taskbar (e.g.,
the English keyboard is represented by the letters EN).
To select the Greek keyboard, first open the software you intend to use
(e.g., Microsoft Word) and make sure that the software has the focus (click
inside the software window). Then click the letters on the Taskbar (EN
in the example illustration below) to open a keyboard menu and select
Greek (EL).

The Greek keyboard should now be active, with the
letters EL appearing on the taskbar. You may wish to work with
the Language Bar on the screen. To restore the Language Bar, right-click
on EL and select Restore the language bar from the menu.

The Language bar should now
appear docked to the title bar of the software window. You can also drag
the Language bar down into the document area if you wish, as illustrated
below:

To return the Language bar
to the Taskbar, click on the minimize button (button with a minus sign
on right side of Language bar).

The On-Screen Keyboard can be used as an aid in learning
the layout of this keyboard. To start the On-Screen Keyboard, follow this
Start Menu path: Programs/Accessories/Accessibility. You can enter characters
via the keyboard, using the On-Screen Keyboard as a template, or you can
enter characters directly by clicking the keys on the screen.

You must select a font in the
software you are using that supports classical Greek. Palatino Linotype
is one font that can be used.

In order to type diacritical
marks using the polytonic Greek keyboard, it is necessary to use "dead
keys". Dead keys are keys that when pressed do not display anything on
the screen until the next key is pressed. If the second key is for a character
that can take a diacritical mark, then that character and the mark are
displayed. If the second key is for a character that does not take a diacritical
mark, then two characters are displayed, the first being a basic value
for the key. To get a diacritical mark all by itself, press the appropriate
dead key followed by a space.

The basic Greek keyboard is
illustrated below:

The keys labeled
with red arrows are dead keys. Press the dead key, release, then
press the character to which the diacritical should be applied (the
illustration above contains one example for each diacritical).

When you hold
down the right Alt key, the keys change as illustrated below:

The right Alt
key provides a second set of diacriticals. To apply these, hold the
Alt key down and press the appropriate dead key. Then release
both keys and press the desired character key.

When you hold
down the Shift key, the keys change as illustrated below:

The Shift
key provides a third set of diacriticals. To apply these, hold the Shift
key down and press the appropriate dead key. Then release both keys
and press the desired character key (hold the Shift key down
again to obtain the upper case character).

When you hold
down both the Shift and right Alt keys, a fourth set of
diacriticals is available as illustrated below:

To apply the
diacriticals above, hold down both the Shift key and the right
Alt key and then press the appropriate dead key. Then release
all three keys and press the desired character key.